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Heat Transfer
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5. Conduction is the transfer of heat between two objects in contact with one another.
6. Why does the hand need an oven mitt in order to pick up the pot from the stove? the pot travels to the skin
and burn the hand
7. List four good conductors and four poor conductors:
Good
Poor
1. Steel
1. Insulation
2. Wood
3. Copper
3. plastic
4. Brass
4. Ebonite
8. Convection is the up and down movement of hot and cold air caused by heat transfer.
9. What happens to the air as the stove heats it? it rises
11. What happens to the air as it gets farther from the heat source? it contracts and sits back down
12. List four examples of convection:
1. warmer water at the surface lake and pool
2. Wind Currents
3. Hot air balloons
4. Lower floors being cooler at the top
13. When heat waves travel through space it is called radiation.
14. What happens to the temperature of the house as the suns radiant energy touches it? - It increases